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Item-score reliability as a selection tool in test construction
Zijlmans,E.A.O. Tijmstra,J. van der Ark,L.A. Sijtsma,K.
Zijlmans,E.A.O.
Tijmstra,J.
van der Ark,L.A.
Sijtsma,K.
Abstract
This study investigates the usefulness of item-score reliability as a criterion for item selection in test construction. Methods MS, λ 6, and CA were investigated as item-assessment methods in item selection and compared to the corrected item-total correlation, which was used as a benchmark. An ideal ordering to add items to the test (bottom-up procedure) or omit items from the test (top-down procedure) was defined based on the population test-score reliability. The orderings the four item-assessment methods produced in samples were compared to the ideal ordering, and the degree of resemblance was expressed by means of Kendall's τ. To investigate the concordance of the orderings across 1,000 replicated samples, Kendall's W was computed for each item-assessment method. The results showed that for both the bottom-up and the top-down procedures, item-assessment method CA and the corrected item-total correlation most closely resembled the ideal ordering. Generally, all item assessment methods resembled the ideal ordering better, and concordance of the orderings was greater, for larger sample sizes, and greater variance of the item discrimination parameters.
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2019
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ALPHA, SATISFACTION, SCALE, SINGLE-ITEM, VALIDITY, corrected item-total correlation, correction for attenuation, item selection in test construction, item-score reliability, method CA, method MS, method lambda(6)
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Zijlmans, E A O, Tijmstra, J, van der Ark, L A & Sijtsma, K 2019, 'Item-score reliability as a selection tool in test construction', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 2018, no. 9, 2298. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02298